Join Danny Shih as he demonstrates using the range partitioner feature. Parallel.For is great, but being a general solution, it does not perform optimally for certain specific scenarios, such as when there are a ton of iterations and very little work per
iteration. In these cases, the range…

Join James Rapp once again as he dives deeper into the new parallel performance analysis tools available in Visual Studio 2010. In this video, he discusses ways of managing the quantity of data presented by the profiler and how to obtain meaningful statistics
about your parallel…

Visual Studio 2010 (currently in beta) includes new Parallel Performance Analysis tools. The new Profiler is a must-have tool for Developers interested in designing new "many-core" parallel-computing applications. Join James as he illustrates the profiler,
profiling-options, and…

The IIS WebDAV extension module incorporates new features that enable web authors to publish content easier than before, and offers web administrators more security and deployment options.
Windows Server 2008 R2 incorporates the WebDAV extension module feature. All you have to do is to enable…

This video demonstrates the use of Parallel Extensions to the .NET Framework. Parallel Extensions requires .NET 3.5 and the final version will be part of the .NET 4.0 Framework when released. These extensions introduce new classes and functionality into
the System.Threading namespace. It's…

This video demonstrates using Windows PowerShell V2 remote sessions. This is a new feature with V2 and available natively within Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2.
See more info about Windows PowerShell V2 at
MSDN Code Gallery.

This video demonstrates converting a Windows PowerShell script to a Windows PowerShell module.
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MSDN Code Gallery.
The video starts by introducing a simple script file, counter.ps1, with three functions and two variables.
The script file is dot sourced into the…

This video demonstration walks through the steps of creating and using sessions in Windows PowerShell v2. It also introduces the debugging functions such as working with breakpoints.
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MSDN Code Gallery.
Demo:
The Universal Code Execution Model means that…